waling (waling)

[ 6808 There is little Jacob, walking , as the popular phrase is, into a home-made plum-cake, at a most surprising pace. Dickens , Old Curiosity Shop, lxviii. To walk over the course, in sporting, to go over a course at a walking or slow pace: said of a horse, runner, etc., coming alone to the scratch, and having to go over the course to win; hence, figuratively, to gain an easy victory; attain one's object without opposition. Also to walk over. Compare walk - over. - To walk Spanish. See Spanish. To walk tall. See tall2. - Walk about, a military phrase used by British officers to sentinels, to waive the ceremony of being saluted. II. trans. 11. To full, as cloth. Payment vj d., for the walk in of ilke eln [ell] of the said xix eln & a half. Act. Dom. Conc. A. 1488, p. 95. (Jamie son.) 2. To proceed or move through, over, or upon by walking, or as if by walking; traverse at a walk. If that same demon that hath gull'd thee thus Should with his lion gait walk the whole world. Shak., Hen. V., ii. 2. 122. Yes she is ours a home-returning bark;.. She walks the waters like a thing of life. Byron , Corsair, i. 3. 3. To cause to walk; lead, drive, or ride at a walk. I will rather trust walise (wa-lēz'), n. A Scotch form of valise . walk (wak), v . [Under this form are merged two verbs, one strong, the other weak: ( a ) walken (pret. welk , pl. weolken , welken , pp. walke , iwalken ), wealcan (pret. weolc , pp. wealcen ), move, roll, turn, revolve, = MD. walcken , cause to move, pre , squeeze, strain, gelding. D. walken , felt (hats), = OHG. walchan , full (cloth), roll oneself, wallow, MHG. walken (> It. gualcare, prepare by stamping) = G. walken , 4. To escort in a walk; take to walk. full (cloth), felt (hats). ( b ) walkien (pret. walkede, walkide , pp. walked ) = Icel. valka , volk a , roll, stamp, roll oneself, wallow, = Sw. valka , roll, full (cloth), Dan. valke , full (cloth); prob. akin to L. valgus , bent, vergere , bend, turn, incline: see verge2 .] I. in trans . 11. To be in action or motion; act; move; go; be current. a thief to walk my ambling Shak., M. W. of W., ii. 2. 319. I am much indebted to you For dancing me off my legs, and then for walking me. Fletcher , Wild goose Chase, iii. 1. = ze ar knyzt comlokest kyd of your elde, Your worde & your worchip walkez ay quere [everywhere]. Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1520. And ever as she went her toung did walke In fowle reproch. Spenser, F. Q., II. iv. 5. 2. To be stirring; be abroad; move about. Jesus walked in Galilee; for he would not walk in Jew- ry, because the Jews sought to kill him. John vii. 1. She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudle climes and starry skies. Byron, She Walks in Beauty. 3. To go restle ly about; move about, as an unquiet spirit or specter, or as one in a state of somnambulism. When I am dead, For certain I shall walk to visit him, If he break promise with me. Beau, and Fl . , King and No King, ii. 1. 4. To move off; depart. [Colloq.] When he comes foorth, he will make theyr cowes and garrans to walke. Spenser, State of Ireland. Brow borough has sat for the place now for three Par liaments. I am told that he must walk if any body would go down who could talk to the colliers every night Trollope, Phineas Redux, i. for a week or so. 5. To live and act or behave in any particular manner; conduct one's self; pursue a particular course of life. Fadres and Modres that walken in won Schul loue heore children. Walk humbly with thy God. Holy Rood (E. E. T. S.), p. 143. Micah vi. 8. 6. To move with the gait called a walk. See walk , n ., 5. O, let me see thee walk ; thou dost not halt. Shak ., T. of the S., ii. 1. 258. He walks , he leaps, he runs is wing'd with joy. Cowper , Task, i. 443. 7. To go or travel on foot: often followed by an accusative of distance: as, to walk five miles. In his slepe hym thoghte That in a forest faste he welk to wepe.